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A Fragile Enchantment
By: Allison Saft
Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.
Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that... Read more
That's Not My Name
By: Megan Lally
Narrated by: Robb Moreira & Sophie Amoss
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
It was a mistake to trust him.Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.He is... Read more
View audiobookThe Little Liar
By: Mitch Albom
Narrated by: Mitch Albom
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times BestsellerBeloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust.Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer,... Read more
View audiobookBound to the Shadow Prince
By: Ruby Dixon
Narrated by: Ellory Lane
Length: 21 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A steamy new monster romance from the bestselling author of Ice Planet Barbarians!
He is a hulking, winged beast, complete with claws and fangs, and she is trapped alone with him in a dark tower. She should be terrified of him, so why does he turn her on?
Princess Candra must remain locked inside a tower for seven long years in order to protect... Read more
A Bold Return to Giving a Damn
By: Will Harris
Narrated by: Will Harris
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl
From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate
Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited... Read more
Black River Orchard
By: Chuck Wendig
Narrated by: Xe Sands, Brittany Pressley, Sean Patrick Hopki...
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents.
“This masterful outing should continue to earn Wendig comparisons to Stephen King.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • AN NPR BEST BOOK... Read more
What Kind of Mother
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Joe Hempel
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming.After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her... Read more
View audiobookChenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World. Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more
View audiobookThe Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.
New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has... Read more
Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland & Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.” —Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.
In a... Read more
The Peach Seed
By: Anita Gail Jones
Narrated by: Anita Gail Jones
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"Anita Gail Jones's narration transports listeners across centuries and continents as she details the complex history of a Southern Black family."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author, who brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a professional oral-tradition storyteller of global folklore as well as original and personal... Read more
My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
Narrated by: Kiiri Sandy
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?A Belletrist Book Club Pick • An Amazon UK Best Book of the Year • Winner of France’s First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Vogue • theSkimm • Oprah... Read more
View audiobookA Most Agreeable Murder
By: Julia Seales
Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A delightful cocktail that mixes elements of the Bridgerton series, Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries . . . The payoff is a wealth of wit, hilarity and suspense.”—People (Book of the Week)
When a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper... Read more
Through the Groves
By: Anne Hull
Narrated by: Anne Hull
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author,
“Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.”
—Rick Bragg
"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps... Read more
The Antiquity Affair
By: Lee Kelly & Jennifer Thorne
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Holly Linneman
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An archaeologist’s estranged daughters.1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters—intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and nonconformist Tess, who dreams of following in his... Read more
View audiobookDon't Call It Hair Metal
By: Sean Kelly
Narrated by: Sean Kelly
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s
There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock 'n' roll of the '50s, '60s, and '70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess.... Read more
Slow AF Run Club
By: Martinus Evans
Narrated by: Martinus Evans
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club.
Ten years ago, Martinus Evans got some stern advice from his doctor: “Lose weight or die.” First defensive, but then defiant, Evans vowed that day to run a marathon, though his doctor thought he was crazy. Since... Read more
Fatal Conveniences
By: Darin Olien
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and... Read more
View audiobookPaved Paradise
By: Henry Grabar
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic
“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker
“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times
"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone... Read more
Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its stunning conclusion. In short: You need to read this book.... Read more
View audiobookThe Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.
“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal
“This brilliant novella is not... Read more
Untethered Sky
By: Fonda Lee
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From World Fantasy Award–winning author Fonda Lee comes an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs.Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family.Ester’s... Read more
View audiobookWithout Children
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast... Read more
View audiobookThe Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review).
“Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might... Read more